Today's News

Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Lenora Kay McNabb and William. F. ‘Bill‘ Flynn Jr. of Supply. The bride-elect is the daughter of Kay D. Pleasants of Supply.She is originally from Charlotte. The prospective groom is the son of Jacqueline Flynn of Philadelphia and is originally from Philadelphia. The two decided to make their home in Brunswick County because they fell in love with the area, the people and their church. An Oct. 17 wedding is set at Sharon United Methodist Church.

Martha Norwood of Marshville and Danny Norwood of Sunset Beach announce the engagement of their daughter, Stephanie Kathleen Norwood, to Daniel Ray Mills. The bride-elect graduated from Forest Hills High School in Marshville in 2004 and from Appalachian State University in Boone in 2008. She is employed by Wilkes County Public Schools and Appalachian State University Athletics. The prospective groom is the son of Tami and David Mills of Marshville. He is a 2003 graduate of Forest Hills High School and attended Western Carolina University in Cullowhee.

Just when we thought everything was copasetic and we could just roll along with life, we experienced a number of surprising glitches in our usually tranquil routine. Little did we know that life was happening before our very eyes.

Life was happening while we were making other plans, usual plans, ordinary plans. It all began with the return of the raccoons.

The Aggressive Criminal Enforcement (ACE) Team is a support unit, whose primary functions are traffic enforcement and assisting in the apprehension of drug traffickers in the county.

The ACE team conducts driving while impaired and driver’s license checkpoints, as well as street-level investigations on controlled substances. The ACE team works with the sheriff’s office K-9 Enforcement Team and Drug Enforcement Unit to apprehend narcotics suspects as well as saturating hot spots where criminal activity is reported.

The K-9 enforcement team answers calls, conducts driver’s license checkpoints and assists with other agencies when K-9s are needed.

From May 18-24, deputies with the Brunswick County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Enforcement Team answered 28 calls, made eight drug arrests and wrote 13 uniform citations, including driving while license revoked, no operator’s license, expired registration and no insurance.

SOUTHPORT—The backdoor of Gladys Myrie’s 11th Street home was slashed and the window broken when a relative called 911 around 1:20 p.m. Friday, May 22, to report what he thought was suspicious.

When asked if Myrie was at home, he told the dispatcher didn’t know.

But when Southport Police arrived at the home Friday afternoon, they found her dead in her bedroom. Southport Police Chief Jerry Dove said the cause of death was a stab wound, but did not know how many times she was stabbed.

Ceremonies paying tribute to the hundreds of thousands of military men and women who have served and made the ultimate sacrifice in defending American freedom are scheduled this coming Memorial Day holiday weekend in Brunswick County.

Calabash and Holden Beach

Memorial Day services are scheduled in Calabash and Holden Beach VFW—at 11 a.m. Monday, May 25.